ISBN:
978-1-912808-23-6
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 343 Seiten)
,
Karten
Edition:
Enlarged edition
Uniform Title:
Jouer, une étude anthropologique
Keywords:
Spiel Theorie, ethnologische
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Sibirien
;
Mongolei
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Anthropologie, psychologische
Abstract:
Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon begins by zeroing in on Mongolia and Siberia, where communities host national holiday games similar to the Olympics. Within these events Hamayon explores the performance of ethical values and local identity, and then she draws her analysis into larger ideas examinations of the spectrum of play activities as they can exist in any culture. She explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Foreword: In praise of play / by Michael Puett -- Map -- Introduction: "Playing" -- Part One: From games to play -- Chapter One: Can play be an object of research? -- Chapter Two: Play in the West -- Chapter Three: Play defined in negative terms -- Chapter Four: Buryat play -- Chapter Five: Lively rhythmical movements creating a fictional frame -- Part Two: Play and its multiple dimensions -- Chapter Six: Bodily involvement and the creation of other dimensions -- Chapter Seven: Imitation -- Chapter Eight: Foreshadowing -- Chapter Nine: The cognitive process -- Chapter Ten: Interaction -- Chapter Eleven: Dramatization -- Chapter Twelve: Involving psyche -- Chapter Thirteen: Indeterminacy -- Chapter Fourteen: Strategy -- Chapter Fifteen: The social and political repercussions -- Chapter Sixteen: The privilege of virility -- Chapter Seventeen: Taking advantage of the gap -- In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of names
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [303]-338
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